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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count, like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Creating something that solves a problem, fills a need or engineers innovative solutions begins with making the transition from creative thought to applied principles.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Buffett and Gates are sitting together at a table, both men were asked to write on a piece of paper the one thing they felt had contributed most to their success. Sure enough, both men had unknowingly written down the same word: focus. It”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“If you’ve got a revolutionary idea that you truly believe in, don’t worry if other people don’t get it. Start developing it now so that you’ll be prepared when the time is right.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“shows us that business is not merely about business, but that it has a personal aspect that needs to be nurtured, respected, and attended to properly. Removing the personal aspect from a business diminishes passion, stunts vision, and disables an individual from projecting towards the future. Lessons Learned: Bill Gates states that”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“I think the best way to attract venture capital is to try and come up with a demonstration of whatever product or service it is and ideally take that as far as you can. Just see if you can sell that to real customers and start generating some momentum. The further along you can get with that, the more likely you are to get funding. – Elon Musk”
― Influential Individuals, Elon Musk: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“If you have complete belief in your idea, often perseverance can be the difference between success and failure. Adapt, improve and keep at it.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success